Department of Educational Psychology

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The Department of Educational Psychology (EPSY) contributes to creating more just and equitable communities, schools, and families through innovative, award-winning research, engaged partnerships and outreach.

We engage in teaching and research in two broad areas:

  • Development and application of relevant measures, evaluations, statistical analyses, and assessments of human learning and development to improve educational institutions and research
  • Better understanding of human development and learning in context, with a specific focus on how individual, family, and community diversity shape human development and learning

We examine how culture, ethnicity, immigration status, class, gender and sexual orientation relate to human development and learning.

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Early Childhood Educator reads to children
College receives $2.8M from private donor to enhance early childhood teacher prep programs
Monday, April 6, 2020
The UIC College of Education has received a $2.8 million gift from Marjorie Pelino to help expand the number of early childhood teachers in Chicago and surrounding areas.
Child drawing with crayons
$250,000 grant funds collaborative study on access to early childhood education in Illinois
Monday, February 17, 2020
Backed by a two-year, $250,000 grant, co-PIs Sarai Coba-Rodriguez (Educational Psychology) and Kate Zinsser (Psychology) will examine the impact on families whose children are expelled or forced out of early child care programs.
Cathy Main teaching at an early childhood alternative licensure class in July 2019
UIC earns $3.8M grant to enhance early childhood education
Monday, October 14, 2019
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $3.8 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to further its work, along with several partners, supporting early childhood education and to…

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